Hateful graffiti spurs calls for tolerance

Buildings in two Cape and Islands towns were marred recently by separate acts of vandalism that included scrawled or spray-painted swastikas and in one case, a racial slur against black people.On Feb. 22, Barnstable police were notified that profane language, two swastikas and a “derivative of the n-word” had been spray-painted on a waterfront building near Craigville Beach in Centerville, according to Barnstable police Sgt. Eric Drifmeyer. The building is owned by the [...]